Katie Hopkins tear gassed at Calais Jungle migrant camp

The outspoken columnist was caught up in an attack as migrants stormed the perimeter fence
Emma Powell9 September 2016
The Weekender

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Katie Hopkins has been tear gassed during a visit to Calais's Jungle migrant camp.

Hopkins said she watched as police used tear gas to stop hundreds of migrants as they attempted to storm a perimeter fence to gain access to vehicles heading across the Channel to Britain.

And she said a photographer with her had his camera, phone and wallet stolen.

The LBC presenter, 41, was caught up in the incident as police tried to prevent migrants from jumping on trucks waiting for ferries to cross the Channel into the UK.

Katie Hopkins takes cover from the gas 
LBC

Video footage shows Hopkins running towards the perimeter fence as sirens blare in the background.

Speaking to the camera she says: “There’s a pile up of trucks and the guys are running to get on the trucks and we’re following them.

Katie Hopkins stands among clouds of gas at the Calais migrant camp 
Roland Hoskins/Daily Mail

“They have a really short window to get on the trucks before the police come and stop them.”

Smoke soon fills the air as the controversial columnist becomes aware that the authorities are using tear gas.

“I think that’s tear gas,” she shouts. “There’s now tear gas being fired all around us.”

Hopkins said she visited the camp to get a first-hand experience of life in the ‘jungle’.

Photographer Roland Hoskins had his camera, phone and wallet stolen after he was attacked by a group of migrants, LBC reported.

Hoskins was helped by members of the charity Care4Calais and other migrants managed to retrieve most of his belongings.

Hopkins wrote in the MailOnline: "We were tear-gassed amongst the excitable mob and our cameraman was left shaking in the back of a shipping container stripped of his kit."

Hopkins has publicly criticised the influx of migrants making the illegal journey from Calais to the UK, and last year faced a backlash for referring to African migrants as “cockroaches”.

Writing in her The Sun column she said: “Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches.

"They might look a bit ‘Bob Geldof’s Ethiopia circa 1984’, but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb.”

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